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There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. -- Francois Viete
Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day. -- David Josiah Brewer
Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. -- George Polya
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty. -- Bertrand Russell
Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth. -- Brian Greene
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. -- Paul Krugman
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. -- Iris Murdoch
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. -- Bertrand Russell
A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret. -- Peter Thiel
To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. -- Hilda Phoebe Hudson

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